Can anyone guess who fitted them to the roof of my van?
Actually it was not very funny.
I did, with the help of a bloke in a pickup with orange flashing lights on the roof that stopped to help manage to get them off the motorway (they were blocking lanes 2 and 3) throw them down the banking of the hard shoulder, get the motorway running again and f*ck off before the police arrived.
yeah, a nasty 'obstacle' to come across
cameras?
Oops.
DNA?
postcode engraved on them?
The same apprentice you zapped with a megger?
Strictly, of course, it's the driver's responsibility to check the safety of the load. If somebody had been hurt, you could have done time, not the apprentice. I could work with a lazy bugger, and have done so, but I'm not sure that I could cope with somebody who could land me in jail.
Only on the ladder clamps that I took with me.
Almost certainly.
Who needs DNA with van that had a company m#name and phone number on it?
And number plates.
Were they that badly damaged? Brian
I somehow doubt if anyone will care enough to check that unless they landed on a killed a passer by. Brian
However, I doubt they could prove that a clamp had not just sheared off, so just an accident, hardly worth much police time as long as nobody hurt. However how many people would have managed to avoid the traffic to remove them? Brian
I don't think that I will be showing the dashcam of that one. You obviously cannot see the ladders but it does show how quickly the motorway came to a stop.
You know when you are driving along a motorway and all of a sudden it comes to a standstill for a few minutes and then you are moving again and you are thinking "Why did we stop?"
Well today it was because of me.
30+ years ago we were towing a glider trailer down the M4 (previous SWMBO driving) when the trailer snaked, jack-knifed and turned the car through 180 degrees, fortunately without rolling. It took a while for people to slow down but by the end there were 4 cars written-off, no major injuries and we made at least one of the dailies. Not an experience I'd care to repeat.
And you're going back under cover of darkness to retrieve them ...?
Owain
You could get done for littering too...
Andy
Safer to leave it where I did than try taking it with me.
I guess we are all somebodies apprentice.
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I still use a set I *found* on my way to St. Albans. 30 years back so hopefully the owner has stopped looking.
Twin 12'0 with nice comfortable flat tread rungs.
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